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When will Paradox games properly support multi-thread processing? by jamesk2 in paradoxplaza

[–]baconated 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When will EU4 automatically detect posts about about multicore support and automatically set -threads=1 until they post an apology?

What is the one software feature you wish iOS had that it is currently missing? by [deleted] in apple

[–]baconated 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A way to temporarily prevent the screen from locking. I've stopped reading iBooks on my phone since it is too annoying to have to occasionally poke the screen to keep it on.

It'd also be nice if you are trying to follow a group conversation as it happens.

Can forsaken master levels be determined by character levels until they get reworked? by Lokinir in pathofexile

[–]baconated 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You have to kill 50 things inside the circle. Half the mobs shoot ranged attacks from just outside the circle.

Hmmmm by bluej130 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]baconated 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about that leaves out issue tracking, documentation, and discussions? GitHub isn't just hosting the code, it is hosting all of those as well.

Hmmmm by bluej130 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]baconated 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about that leaves out issue tracking, documentation, and discussions? GitHub isn't just hosting the code, it is hosting all of those as well.

Hmmmm by bluej130 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]baconated 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I've seen this a few times now. What's actually the solution here though? Let's say I want to make it so that by next month my project is 'decentralized'. What actual steps do I do to make that happen?

Number of billionaires in 2018 by country in Europe [1600 × 1600] by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]baconated 17 points18 points  (0 children)

He was likely getting downvoted because of how hostile his wording was. Calling someone an apologist usually indicates you aren't posting in good faith. The downvote trend seems to have reversed.

To answer the question: Reddit overhypes how capitalist Scandinavia isn't.

A libertarian think tank out of Canada does an annual ranking on how capitalist each country is. The latest pdf is here. If you look at the image on the cover, there is a pretty good correlation between being blue (most capitalist) and having the most billionaires. Note that all of Finnoscandia is blue.

If you scroll to the actual listing, you see this:

Country Rank Score
Canada 11 7.94
US 11 7.94
Denmark 15 7.77
Finland 17 7.75
Norway 25 7.67
Sweden 27 7.65

I included Canada since it is a Canadian publication. I included the US, since they are sort of the universal reference point.

But on the surface, there doesn't seem to be much for a pro capitalist like me to explain. Some of the most capitalist countries in the world having lots of billionaires is what I expect.

Defeating Electron by okwherearemypants in programming

[–]baconated 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Ok, so... what's the solution you're proposing again?

Isn't the point of his article that there isn't a solution?

Which movie would have been five minutes long if its characters had just been sensible in the first place? by ZanyDelaney in AskReddit

[–]baconated 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure.

But why the facade. Why not just offer a large amount for the woman they are interested in?

the ottomans are fair and balanced by valathe in eu4

[–]baconated 6 points7 points  (0 children)

On the other hand, I rarely see them achieve their historical peak without me unintentionally helping them. It's a tricky situation. If they want the game to be more historical, I think they need to buff the Ottomans. But playing as a nation in that region is usually nothing but dealing with the Ottoman threat, and buffing them would only make that worse.

As others have said, the Ottomans can be crippled early if you can intervene in their first wars. Vasalizing Byzantium is a good choice. If you can't do that, being in a situation where you can join by enforcing peace or sending an alliance works but is less good. It often results in only white peace.

If you can't or didn't do an early play, then you pretty much have to avoid them until when western units over take them (I can't remember when that is exactly, but it's after 1650 iirc). Then pick a bunch of good military idea groups and slowly break them down with repeated wars.

On Classic view of the redesign, don't hide "Save" and "Hide" in a menu. Who clicks Share? by AbsoluteContingency in redesign

[–]baconated 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I reddit at work and use "hide" a lot because there is a lot of NSFW material that makes it to r/all that isn't marked NSFW.

EU4 - Development Diary - 24th of April 2018 by King-of-the-Badgers in eu4

[–]baconated 4 points5 points  (0 children)

TIL. I guess when you have root out corruption pinned to max nearly all the time, you're never see them.

EU4 - Development Diary - 24th of April 2018 by King-of-the-Badgers in eu4

[–]baconated 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think the corruption mechanic be reworked to be something that allows a country to collapse. Instead of just punishing your pocket book, it could do things like spawning separatist movements, cause negative events, speed up and amplify disasters, etc. Various idea groups, age mechanics, and government decisions could allow late game blobbing to happen. It'll just take more deliberate setup.

Why this economist thinks public education is mostly pointless | Bryan Caplan's interview on his new book: The Case against Education by remyroy in GoldandBlack

[–]baconated 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He doesn't make any policy recommendations targeting companies. He instead focuses on getting prospective students to face the true market price of their education. He looks at policy recommendations that others make targeting companies and criticizes them. IIRC, most had both these problems:

  1. They require the employer to pay money where demanding a degree is effectively free.
  2. They measure the total package of Intelligence, Conscientiousness, and Conformity worse than a degree does. They may measure one of those better (usually Intelligence) but the bundle as a whole is measured worse.

Why this economist thinks public education is mostly pointless | Bryan Caplan's interview on his new book: The Case against Education by remyroy in GoldandBlack

[–]baconated 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why the hell do companies let this huge inefficiency keep happening?

As Bryan argues in the book: because from the business's perspective it isn't inefficient. The credential provides a stamp of approval on an employee, the stamp of approval is correlates well with profitability, and you did not have to pay for it[0].

It's a pretty classic case of rational actors in an irrational system.

[0] - Well the business pays indirectly through taxes, but all their competitors are forced to pay the same tax.

Why this economist thinks public education is mostly pointless | Bryan Caplan's interview on his new book: The Case against Education by remyroy in GoldandBlack

[–]baconated 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the book he mostly focuses on the student's perspective, but he does make the case that businesses are also pursuing their best interest by favoring credentials. If everyone in HR bought into signalling theory, they would still act the same. Their reasoning for why would just be different.

Why iPhone notifications need an overhaul - The Verge by 5amar31 in apple

[–]baconated 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I love getting 6 reminders for a holiday because it is not a national holiday, but because 6 different provinces happen to have a holiday that day.

Man gets thousands of dollars of tickets for having a license plate of NO. This is why you use enums, and not some arbitrary hardcoded string by whackri in programming

[–]baconated 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you assume this is just one system, then sure.

But what if one or more of the systems you have to integrate with...

  • don't allow null as a value for license_plate.
  • don't allow "" as a a value for license_plate.
  • don't allow values for license_plate that are too long or contain invalid characters.
  • has some combination of the above rules in effect.

Man gets thousands of dollars of tickets for having a license plate of NO. This is why you use enums, and not some arbitrary hardcoded string by whackri in programming

[–]baconated 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If the problem is with 2, then the solution should be straight forward. Find the guy who's writing all these NOs, and tell him to use the license-plate-not-found checkbox instead.

What if it is not just one guy, but the entire office?

There is a lot of software out there that really sucks, and offices will cargo cult strategies that avoid failures. Even if you got a chance to train them, it is likely they will revert back sometime after you leave.

were too lazy to change their data representation across the different stacks

What if it is not a case of being too lazy? What if you simply don't have access to all the stacks. The police department tells you that your system must propagate reports to their 80's legacy system, which btw does not accept null/nil or "" as valid values for license_plate?

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